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acter, nor vital force as anything other than a form of physical energy derived from, and convertible into, other well- known forces of nature. -- Vital functions (Physiol.), those functions or actions of the body on which life is directly dependent, as the circulation of the blood, digestion, etc. -- Vital principle…

Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion; as, flint and alkalies are vitrifiable.

To convert into glass; to vitrify. [Obs.] Bacon.

Converted into glass.

To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.

Capable of being converted into a vitriol.

To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.

horium and cerium (approx. 99 : 1), drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash. The light far exceeds that obtained from the same amount of gas with the ordinary fishtail burner, but has a slight greenish hue.

A place where grapes are converted into wine.

(Barbarea vulgaris). -- Winter crop, a crop which will bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder during the winter. -- Winter duck. (Zoöl.) (a) The pintail. (b) The old squaw. -- Winter egg (Zoöl.), an egg produced in the autumn by many invertebrates, and destined to survive the winter. Such eggs usual…